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manuscripts, english -- 17th century -- texts.	1
jews -- england -- london -- history -- sources.	1
great fire, london, england, 1666 -- sources.	1
christian converts from judaism -- england -- london -- history -- sources.	1

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People and organisations	Count
Jacob Ben Samuel	1
Hastings, Theophilius (1650-1701)	1
Ben Samuel, Jacob	1
7th Earl of Huntingdon	1

Archive Judaica File:
MS ROTH/249

[Begging letter, after 6 September 1666, from Jacob ben Rabbi Samuel Augusto to the Earl of Huntingdon, referring to "that unhappy fire in London hath undone me, for my pleace[!], for my hebrew bookis, and for my living" (original)].

[1666?]

English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 249. Summary: Only first leaf recto, and last leaf verso (address and traces of red wax...